About Our Doctors

Dr. David Bloom

Dr. Bloom earned his degree in dental medicine from Tufts Dental School in 1978. Given his commitment to intensive Hands-On training he has become a master dentist in all aspects of restorative and cosmetic dentistry, TMJ pain and dysfunction, headache treatment and implant dentistry. He is an alumnus of three of the most prestigious training centers in the country; the Peter Dawson Institute of Advanced Dental Studies, the Seattle Institute of Advanced Dental Education, and the L.D. Pankey Institute, and continues to dedicate weeks a year for his own training. He maintains a thriving private practice in Salem N.H., and is a leader for the profession at the local level.

In 2000, he was one of seventy-five dentists from around the world selected for a visiting faculty position at the L.D. Pankey Institute. Once a year he takes time out of practice to teach his expertise in TMJ dysfunction and treatment, aesthetic dentistry & smile design, reconstructive and implant dentistry using the latest in digital technologies, and the most conservative treatments using bonded composite, and porcelain.

Dr. P. Rory O’Neill, Periodontist

To know Rory is to love him, he has the warmest heart and biggest smile, and is beyond passionate in his quest to providing optimum care for his patients, in a warm, non-threatening environment. Dr. O’Neill received his primary dental degree from University College Cork, National University of Ireland. Having spent some time in private practice,he came to the USA for his postgraduate training, and to pursue his passion for periodontology at Tufts University, School of Dental Medicine in Boston. He then got his DMD degree from Boston University School of Graduate Dentistry.

He has served on several committees at both Tufts University and Boston University dental schools and is currently Associate Clinical Professor of Periodontology at Tufts University, where he is director of the Surgical Literature Review course. He served as a trustee of the American Board of Periodontology and also on the committee for Clinical Practice. He is a past president of the Massachusetts Periodontal Society and was the founding president of the Greater Salem Dental Society. He also was a founding member of the International Academy for the Advancement of Interdisciplinary Dentistry and was its first president. Dr. O’Neill has a Masters degree in “the management of cranio-mandibular dysfunction” from Danube University, Krems, Austria. He has authored and co-authored several papers and has lectured both nationally and internationally. He continues to teach periodontics at the postdoctoral level at Tufts and has a special interest in orthodontics, and maintains a private practice limited to periodontics, implantology and TMD therapy. He is Board Certified and a Diplomate of The American Board of Periodontology.